The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-31

general
the larger companies but reflect the success
that has attended the smaller ones in proper
ton. and they unite In saying that the year mas
been satisfactory.
Haugh. Ketcham & Co., who represent the
ironworks interests, have had a large demand
made upon them. They have neither been
crippled by dissatisfaction OF en- pioyes nor re-
quired to run close for a lack OF or ders They
will make their annual footngs with showing
of decided percentage of increase With Nor
dyke & n armop. who can speak for the machin-
lists and mill manufacturers. the year has been
some better than last not so much in regard to
prices as in quantity of machinery manufactured
and sold. Payments have been good. and alto
gether the end of the year leaves them a good
margin the right side of the ledger. The At
las engine works for many months had night
and day forces in departments to fill
orders for machinery. Like Nordyks & Marmon
the company has more than held its own on the
general results of the year. What the Indian
apolis Car and Manufacturing Company has done
is an excellent showing for the general average
of manufacturing prosperity. Its officers
thought they did well last year, but since jan
nary they have had the volume of their business
increased three times what it was in 1856
The company will have a fine beginning for the
coming year, inasmuch one order alone, when
completed, will call for 100000 in payment:
There are other large contracts to be- filled, and
barring accidents the close of 1888 may find the
company with still greater per centage of in
crease in It's operations Sinker. Davis & Co.
stand on the same plane of large demands, good
prices, and ready payments.
1t has been a good year also in WOODEN goods,
the product being greater than during the pre-
ceding twelve months, although prices have run
low with small margins for profit. But at Ores
endorff & Co it is said that the larger quantity
of goods sold more than covered the iessening
profits, and kept the manufacturers in the best
condition. If statistics of the Industrial pros
perity for the year at hand, the average OF
increase in all lines would show at least % per
cent Take the Touring mills for example,
which could have done better in the aggregate
had the interstate law not interfered with
grain shipments to this point.
naf he will p ard ~
Evanss the machinery has been running night
and day for months. producing flour for export
The product at this mill alone is one quarter
greater than last year Mr.. Richardson says, but
he, too, rates prices low and the margin thin,
defect. however, that is overcome in the larger
quantities sold. This mills prosperity is. not
exceptional. It the rule under
which there have been produced daily through
out The year, in Indianapolis average OF
2. 700 barrels of flour. or an aggregate of elo.ooo
barrels for the year. Tsis IS low estimate,
and the figures, accurately taken. would, no
doubt bring the product close to 100000 bar
res.
The furniture manufacturers ere highly graft
fed what they have DONE This industry
has, for the past fe " years. been increasing rap
idly under heavy demands from the East. In
dIanaDolis furniture can now be had IN New
York and Boston, not only the cheaper lines of
articles, but in novelties and costly sets. Evil
dence of this is had in what they say at Spiegel,
Tnoms & Cos, where the wholesale trade
was some better than the retail. The finer fur
nlture ID going into the larger cities Ger
to give them 0istinctively Indianapolis mark,
and the demand for them has been special
feature of the years business. The outlook
favors still better results. It is thought $l0,
600. 900 will be fair estimate OF what the fur
niture manufacturers have received for their
product this year. and that, too, aggre-
gate capital of about $l.0O0.000. The lounge
industry has become SO large here that 1t Is
classed alone, and what is true of other lines of
furniture amply to those who manufacture
lounges exclusively.
hon tha xv5n1a hfah
of moderate business the planning mills.
They did a large amount of work until lumber
dealers found they could save largely in freights
in having the dressed lumber shipped TO them.
Great quantities of the lumber that now comes
to this market is dressed in the mills at the
points of shipment in the North and South.
But dealers have nothing to complain of. for at
Coburn e Joness it was reported more lumber
had been sold since January than for years.
They were satisfied with results. and, while
prices had been good. their profits were small.
However, they look for an advance when the
year gets fairly along About 10 600 600
feet of soft wood has been sold. In hard woods,
also, the increase has been marked.
Manufacturers will begin the year with the
fullest confidence that what they have enjoyed
will be repeated in the next twelve months. The
same account is given everywhere of all the
varied industrial interests developing under the
best possible conditions. Affairs, too have been
aided by an unusual freedom from labor dis
turbances. Some have occurred. but their effect
has been short-ived, and the year closes with
less evidence of complaint from the employees
could do and whole the year closes on
them in apparent contentment and prosperity.
The Field of Indianapolis Manufactures.
"Oh, | can't say that there is any limit to the
scope of indianapolis manufactured said Mr.
A. H. Nordyke to Journal reporter yesterday.
I'VE like the British empire. the sun
never sets on our possession. Here is a sample
OF our orders"
dad ah1
message of 200 words from Auckland, New Zea-
land, the closing words of which were:
Plant ship Frisco Steamer Key Australian business.
The message when translated meant that the
plant which it ordered should be shipped by a
San Francisco steamer and that the opportun-
ity was key to vast business in Australia
The message had cost 81 II word or more than
$500 for its transmission, and in coming through
had taken the route from New Zealand to Aus
trala. thence to Siam, Hindoostan, under the
Red fsea to Mount Sinai, thence to Alexandria,
Egypt, up through France and England to New
York and Indianapolis. 1t started in the
English language and translated into four
others IN transmission.
My son Charlie is now in New Zealand with
q consignment of Touring mills we are erecting
there" Mr.. Nordyke continued I'VE shipped
the goods in January via New York, and thence
around the Cape of Good Hope, to Australia ar
irving at Auckland in May When my son
comes home he will go up through India and
Siberia to inspect those vast wheat fields of
which we hear competitors of the American
farmer. We also make shipments to all the
other countries on the globe. Those to north
ern Mexico are made By rail via Ell Paso, Tex,
and those to southern Mexico are by water
via New York New Orleans The
duties on these range from % to 33I per cent
according to the character of the machinery.
Shipments to the Argentine Republic or Uru-
quay. South America are of frequent occurrence.
The route IS via New York to Liverpool where
the goods transferred to English vessels
bound for Buenos Ayres or Rosario. This trade
In flour mill machinery Is the most desirable Of
ht1tyy 10
handicapped by the absence of any direct water
route. Occasionally tramp ship from New
York to Buenos Ayres can be Caught, but the
opportunities
The propouderence of our foreign CORE
spondence is conducted in Spanish, though we
have good deal of German and English with
others interspersed We use cipher codes in
our urgent cable correspondence with represent
atives OF the house
Our New Zealand and Australian trade is
always via New York and the Cape of Good Hope,
II we haze time The distance Il 0nG a,les